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Lights out for the Sea Shadow
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| 6/20/11
| Mike Krumboltz
Posted on 06/20/2011 5:31:46 PM PDT by Kartographer
Call it a funeral at sea for the U.S. Navy's Sea Shadow. The stealth ship, which served as an inspiration for the supervillain's supervessel in the James Bond movie "Tomorrow Never Dies," is set to be dismantled and recycled.
The Navy had hoped that a private buyer would come forward and take the spy ship off its hands. Alas, there were no takers, so the bizarre black Sea Shadow is heading for the scrap heap.
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TOPICS: Government; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: roaring40s; roaringforties; roguewave; roguewaves
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To: Kartographer
You mean to tell me that obama does not want that toy for the Presidential Yacht?
LLS
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posted on
06/20/2011 5:33:41 PM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
("GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH"! I choose LIBERTY and PALIN!)
To: LibLieSlayer
I’m sure that some South American drug lord would love to have this for their regular cocaine runs...
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posted on
06/20/2011 5:35:28 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: Kartographer
Why not post the picture of a ship that most people don't know by its name?
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posted on
06/20/2011 5:36:57 PM PDT
by
Rudder
(The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
To: LibLieSlayer
That’s because the phone on the bridge “doesn’t have all the fancy buttons and stuff.”
To: Rudder
what? Whale Wars does not want it?
To: Rudder
It’s hard to believe we just “dismantle and recycle’ this cool-looking weapon that America makes. Just hand it to Taiwan so they can use it against China.
To: Rudder
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posted on
06/20/2011 6:15:35 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Kartographer
The boat looks to be stable when it’s upside down.
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posted on
06/20/2011 6:19:10 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Kartographer
Probably best that they get this thing out of the water now, and into the scrapyard as quickly as possible. If its been sitting around for four or five years, it is probably a nightmare of corrosion that even the manufacturer couldn’t repair, and nobody else is going to either.
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posted on
06/20/2011 6:19:18 PM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Your what hurts??)
To: Rudder
That would be one heck of a chick-magnet! Party on!
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posted on
06/20/2011 6:39:20 PM PDT
by
Sarajevo
(Avoid arguments with your wife about lifting the toilet seat by simply using the sink.)
To: Paladin2
The boat looks to be stable when it’s upside down.IMHO that is the main flaw with all multihulls.
You don't see many multihulls attempting solo circumnavigation. When they pitchpole, they cannot be righted by one person, and they will pitchpole in heavy seas, e.g., the roaring forties between Antarctica and the southern tips of S. America and Africa.
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posted on
06/20/2011 6:52:30 PM PDT
by
Rudder
(The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
To: Kartographer
... which served as an inspiration for the supervillain's supervessel in the James Bond movie "Tomorrow Never Dies," Bond Ship:
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posted on
06/20/2011 6:56:06 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Kartographer
What's interesting was that the Sea Shadow's test results did get applied to more modern ships. More recent classes of destroyers and frigates built for the US Navy now have special shapes to drastically reduce the radar cross section (RCS), and a number of foreign frigates have switched to low-observable designs based on what was learned from the Sea Shadow.
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posted on
06/20/2011 6:59:34 PM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: Rudder
I have had a small cat for decades. “Tripping” is to be avoided.
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posted on
06/20/2011 7:10:14 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Paladin2
Can you right it single-handedly?
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posted on
06/20/2011 7:20:08 PM PDT
by
Rudder
(The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
To: Rudder
Maybe now that I’ve put on a few pounds. I haven’t tried it lately.
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posted on
06/20/2011 7:26:41 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Kartographer
Would love to own a Popular Science cover vessel. Can’t find pics of the interior. Think they’d consider a trade for a 2002 Ford Windstar? It’s an SE and a real bute!
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posted on
06/20/2011 8:02:14 PM PDT
by
TruthHound
("He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." --Leonardo da Vinci)
To: TruthHound
Has in been in for, and passed both recalls?
If so, they ya, they might take it!
To: TruthHound
Has in been in for, and passed both recalls?
If so, then ya, they might take it!
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